Otherness in international relations theory
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1996
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Burke, Lisa Marie
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This thesis is an investigation into how three canonical authors in International Relations create that which they purport to discover: the Other. Each begins their discussion with claims of epistmological relativism and yet each relies upon a position of ontological universalism upon which to found the analysis. It is argued that this particular resolution of the universal and the particular in a construction of anarchy is enabled by the construction of international life posited by the levels-of-analysis typology. Kenneth Waltz, Graham T. Allison and Robert Jervis all construct an object of analysis and participate in an erasure of its construction.